Joshua Wainer, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Ben Robins, Farshid Amirabdollahian (2013) A pilot study with a novel setup for collaborative play of the humanoid robot KASPAR with children with autism. International Journal of Social Robotics, in press.

Paul Dickerson, Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn (2013) Where the action is: A conversation analytic perspective on interaction between a humanoid robot, a co-present adult and a child with an ASD. Interaction Studies 14(2), accepted for publication.

Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Paul Dickerson, (2012) Embodiment and Cognitive Learning – Can a Humanoid Robot Help Children with Autism to Learn about Tactile Social Behaviour?, ICSR12 - International Conference on Social Robotics, October 2012, Chengdu, China, pp. 66-75

Joshua Wainer, Ester Ferrari, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Ben Robinsn (2010) The effectiveness of using a robotics class to foster collaboration among groups of children with autism in an exploratory study. Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 14:445-¬455

Ester Ferrari, Ben Robins and Kerstin Dautenhahn (2010) “Does it work?” A framework to evaluate the effectiveness of a robotic toy for children with special needs. 19th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 10) September 2010, Viareggio, Italy.

Ben Robins and Kerstin Dautenhahn (2010) Developing Play Scenarios for Tactile Interaction with a Humanoid Robot: A Case Study Exploration with Children with Autism, 2nd International Conference on Social Robotics, November 2010, Singapore

Joshua Wainer, Kerstin Dautenhahn ,Ben Robins and Farshid Amirabdollahian (2010) Collaborating with Kaspar: Using an Autonomous Humanoid Robot to Foster Cooperative Dyadic Play among Children with Autism. 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 10) December 2010, Nashville, TN

Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Paul Dickerson (2009), From Isolation to Communication: A Case Study Evaluation of Robot Assisted Play for Children with Autism with a Minimally Expressive Humanoid Robot. Proc. the Second International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, ACHI 09, February 1-7, Cancun, Mexico. Published by IEEE Computer Society Press

Ester Ferari, Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn, (2009) Robot as a Social Mediator - a Play Scenario Implementation with Children with Autism. 8th international Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC09 -Workshop on Creative Interactive Play for Disabled Children, June 3-5, Como, Italy

Ester Ferari, Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn (2009) Therapeutic and educational objectives in Robot Assisted Play for children with autism. International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 09) September 2009, Toyama, Japan

Farshid Amirabdollahian, Ben Robins, and Kerstin Dautenhahn, (2009) Robotic Skin Requirements Based on Case Studies on Interacting with Children with Autism. in “Tactile Sensing” workshop at IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 09) December 2009, Paris, France

Josh Wainer, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Ben Robins, Using robots to foster collaboration among groups of children with autism in an after-school class setting: An exploratory study. Proc. of 1st Workshop on Design for Social Interaction through Physical Play.at the 2nd International conference on Fun and Games, 22 -24 October 2008, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn (2006), Does appearance matter in the interaction of children with autism with a humanoid robot? Interaction Studies 7:3, pp. 479-512

Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn (2006), The role of the experimenter in HRI research - A case study evaluation of children with autism interacting with a robotic toy. Proc IEEE Ro-man 2006, 15th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Hatfield, UK

Davis, M., Dautenhahn, K., Nehaniv, C., Powell, S. A, TouchStory: Towards and Interactive Learning Environment for Helping Children with Autism to Understand Narrative. Proc. ICCHP 2006, 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, July 12-14, 2006, University of Linz, Austria.

B. Robins, K. Dautenhahn, R. te Boekhorst, and A. Billard, Robotic Assistants in Therapy and Education of Children with Autism: Can a Small Humanoid Robot Help Encourage Social Interaction Skills? Special issue "Design for a more inclusive world" of the international journal Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS), Vol 4(2) special issue Springer-Verlag.

B. Robins (2005) “A humanoid robot as assistive technology for encouraging social interaction skills in children with Autism, PhD Thesis, University of Hertfordshire,UK, 2005.

B. Robins, K. Dautenhahn and J. Dubowski, Robots as isolators or mediators for children with autism? A cautionary tale Proc. AISB'05 Symposium on Robot Companions Hard Problems and Open Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction, 14-15 April 2005, University of Hertfordshire, UK, pp. 82-88. Published by SSAISB,

Iain Werry, Kerstin Dautenhahn and William Harwin (2001a) Investigating a Robot as a Therapy Partner for Children with Autism Proceedings AAATE 2001, 6th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (AAATE 2001), 3-6 September 2001, Ljubljana / Slovenia

Iain Werry, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Bernard Ogden and William Harwin (2001b) Can Social Interaction Skills Be Taught by a Social Agent? The Role of a Robotic Mediator in Autism Therapy Proceedings CT2001, The Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Technology: INSTRUMENTS OF MIND, Monday 6th - Thursday 9th August, 2001 at University of Warwick, United Kingdom, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

Iain Werry, Kerstin Dautenhahn and William Harwin (2001c) Evaluating the Response of Children with Autism to a Robot To appear in Proceedings RESNA 2001, Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America, Friday, June 22 - Tuesday, June 26, 2001, John Ascuaga's Nugget Hotel, Reno, Nevada, USA.

Kerstin Dautenhahn (1997) I Could Be You: The Phenomenological Dimension of Social Understanding Cybernetics and Systems Journal, 28(5), 417-453, Special Issue on Epistemological Aspects of Embodied AI

Disclaimer: A number of the above papers refer to 'rehabilitation' or 'remedy' in the context of autism. The AuRoRA project is about therapy, not rehabilitation: we are not claiming to have a cure for autism!